"After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist, and the war that has turned the world into little more than a wasteland has finally burned itself out. For it's not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters of the Seven Kingdoms gather. Now, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising faces - some familiar, others only just appearing - are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges of terrible times ahead. Nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages are coming together and stake their fortunes...and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guests - but only a few are the survivors." -- Book cover